Re: How long before marijuana, gay marriage, and casinos in Va?
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Progressively leftward
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Date: April 21, 2014 08:30PM
If you were a real liberal, you'd respect the freedom to be forced into a public union merely because you have a job serving in a Maryland public school. Because to you progressives, the public servant isn't to serve the public, it's to serve your party. This type is centralizing power and being intolerant of dissent reflects the puritanism.
Also you have the wrong idea of conservatives. You mischaracterize them as wanting "government out of people's lives". That straw man no one believes. Too frequently, including you progressives isolate yourselves into echo chambers, sneering down at your opponents and mocking whatever they hear from them. You don't get a chance to understand our opponents.
Conservatives are not anarchists or even libertarians. They want a government accountable to the Executive Branch, Courts, Congress and the people. In the conservative view, to redress government abuses (and favoritism, targeting, budget-demanding tactics and so on), the solution is to restrain the authority of government. That tactic may play out in proposing 'less government', but it's faulty to summarize as simply that.
Certainly when it comes to utilizing government to hold ALL genders accountable to, and to protect ALL human beings with, laws against child abandonment and contract killing (and the big abortion exemption since written into them), they don't want less government. It's an accountable government they want, without the favoritism toward gender-based exemption to murder or the targeting of nurtured human beings.
And I should also note that may be a conservative principle. Conserve the law. Conserve the functions of the state and adhere them to their limits. There may be some or many who join or represented the conservative party, the Republican Party, that don't practice it. Many may seek to attach themselves to the movement for power, and then use that power for purposes of favoritism or targeting or making components of government unaccountable. At one point in the 2000's, it got so bad that it splintered the party.